Рубрика: Robotics

The COVID-19 pandemic continues spreading all over the world, putting extreme pressure on healthcare organizations, hospital staff and governments as well. Thousands of people lost their lives and billions have sent to stay home in order to contain the virus. However, this pandemic also brings some opportunities for innovation in the healthcare system and health technologies. Amid such development, robots emerge as an effective technology for patient care during the crisis. As robots are immune to COVID-19, its adoption is already augmenting not only in healthcare facilities but also in hotels that are turned into isolation zone to quarantine patients with the virus.

Robotics could play a major role in fighting against this contagious disease, warding off doctors from getting expose to COVID-19 by delivering essentials such as food and medicines to patients. They are also assisting by supplying essentials to homes and delivering treatment in high-risk areas of the pandemic.

Robots can also be used for clinical care, including de-contamination, delivery and handling of contaminated waste, as well as monitoring compliance with voluntary quarantines. Robot-assisted non-contact ultraviolet surface disinfection has already been in use for disease prevention, as COVID-19 spreads not only from person to person through close contact respiratory droplet transfer but also through contaminated surfaces. According to reports, ultraviolet light has been shown to be effective in reducing contamination on surfaces in hospitals. A hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, for instance, is using an ultraviolet light robot to disinfect the facility. The hospital is using this system instead of hydrogen peroxide as UV light cuts cleaning time from hours to a matter of minutes.

Besides effective for disinfecting areas, delivering medications and food, robots are also able to measure vital signs of the virus. Combined with thermal sensors and vision algorithms on autonomous or remotely operated robots, automated camera systems can monitor temperatures of patients in hospitals. For instance, TUS PHID System, developed by Tus Data Asset, could validate the identity of people through facial recognition and perform thermal camera checks at the same time. As a result, those with abnormal temperatures could be effectively detected and close contact could be prevented for possible infection. The system could perform rapid body temperature checks contactlessly.

In addition to this, Beijing-based robotics company CloudMinds deployed its 14 robots in the Hongshan Sports Center in Wuhan, China that can help with cleaning and disinfecting hospitals, delivering medicine to patients and measuring their temperature.

To contributing its efforts in the fight against COVID-19, enterprise RPA software company UiPath is also offering healthcare organizations free RPA software to expedite critical processes and slacken strapped employees so they can more rapidly respond to issues arising due to the pandemic. Last month, the company launched a pro bono automation project with the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. The Mater Hospital in Dublin is using UiPath’s attended robots to process COVID-19 testing kits in a fraction of the time.

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Coming out from the dimensions of manufacturing plants, mobile robots have taken a center stage in the fight against coronavirus. As per the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO), people are following social distancing owing to which having human resources has become difficult to avail. Therefore, mobile robots are playing a major role in easing out the burden of healthcare organizations. From assisting doctors and nurses in the hospital to helping police in conducting successful city patrolling amid lockdown, these machines are playing an extremely pivotal role.

For example, Denmark’s UVD Robots which is a leader in fully autonomous ultraviolet-light-disinfection robots shipped hundreds of them to China in February and hundreds more throughout Europe in March. A much smaller number has arrived in the US but several hundred more are on the way.

In San Antonio, Texas, Xenex, another leading provider of UV-light-zapping germicidal robots, has shipped hundreds of their LightStrike bots around the world, including to nearly 70 Veterans Administration hospitals in the U.S. and to ten sites run by the US Department of Defense.

Moreover, robot maker Boston Dynamics announced recently that its quadruped Spot robot is already in use at one Boston hospital to help with coronavirus treatment. The company now has ambitious plans to expand the use of its robots to assist healthcare workers during the pandemic, and it’s also open-sourcing the hardware and software it’s using so other hospitals and robot makers may be able to do follow its lead.

Boston Dynamics says it’s not intending to stop at telemedicine. Instead, the company is looking into ways to make its Spot robots even more vital assets in the fight against COVID-19. The company is now actively looking into remote vital inspection so that Spot robots can perform tasks like temperature checks and respiratory rate calculations using thermal camera technology.

These are the perfect examples of how coronavirus is propelling the mobile robotics market at another level. Such ambitious and innovative projects undertaken by several robotics companies implies that in the coming months we can see an upsurge in growing business use cases of mobile robotics not only in the healthcare sector but across different touchpoints.

Mobile robots are so much in demand for these use cases right now—driven by a shift in the understanding of what these platforms can do—that tech market advisory firm ABI Research expects the overall mobile robotics market to grow to US$23 billion by 2021. “Crises shift perceptions on what is possible regarding investment and transformative action on the part of both private and government actors,” said Rian Whitton, senior analyst at ABI Research. “By the time the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, robots will be mainstreamed across a range of applications and markets.”

Whitton recommends that “industrial players develop customized solutions for non-manufacturing use cases or look to build comprehensive solutions for enabling a scale-up in medical supply manufacturing. For mobile robotics vendors and software companies targeting more nascent markets, this represents a big chance to highlight the importance of robotics for dealing with national emergencies, as well as mitigating the economic shock.”

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The continuous growth and development in technology are driving today’s business operations to a new next level. As companies across diverse industries are always in search of innovative solutions to drive distinctive values, robotics plays a significant role bringing enhanced capabilities to them. Considering reports, the global market for robots is predicted to worth US$100 billion in 2020, and will reach nearly US$210 billion by 2025, at a growing CAGR of 26 percent.

In 2019, we saw the rapid exploration and learning of robotics that continue expanding new markets, beyond manufacturing and supply chains. Now in 2020 and beyond, the development in the technological landscape, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, will move quickly largely because of the outbreak of COVID-19. As, on one side, it has caused businesses worldwide to push back their operations, on the other hand, this has opened new opportunities for innovation.

Here are some top robotics predictions to look for in 2020 and beyond.

Boom in Robotics Service Providers

Today, robots are not just used to perform repetitive and monotonous tasks, but also for complicated ones, such as from minimally invasive surgery to exploring oceans for unexploited oil deposits and much more. Considering the current world scenario, where billions of people asked to stay home to avoid the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, robots are emerging as an effective tool, delivering medicines and food to patients affected with the virus outbreak. Capitalizing on this time, a majority of robotics companies across the world stepped out with ingenious solutions, empowering hospitals and warding off doctors to not get exposed to the pandemic.

Heightened M&A Activities

With the ability to transform industrial workspace as well as assisting in office floors, more acquisitions are predicted to occur in the robotics sector in the coming years. Despite the decline and low start of the global economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the robotics industry continues, with over US$2.7 billion in reported transactions March 2020. According to reports, the majority of that amount was an investment in autonomous automaker Waymo early in March, when the economic slowdown was just beginning in some countries and industries. As consumers demand increasingly personalized goods and in quicker delivery timeframes, it is expected that supply chain operators would now look to meet shorter delivery expectations and smaller batch orders on a larger scale.

Emergence of Cobots

As the world is now discussing how humans and machines can work together, several companies are now racing to develop collaborative robots. These kinds of robots have the potential to work alongside human workers in a shared workplace, lending a hand by performing complex tasks. Cobots are generally robotic arms that move in any angle and work efficiently. When these robots are becoming more capable of extreme industrial settings, they will simply adapt into manufactures with ROI restrictions. As collaborative robots are still in their initial stage, most industries such as packaging, electronics, and food processing are already capitalizing on it. Conversely, industries like agriculture, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, among others are realizing its benefits and set to adopt cobots in the coming days.

Surge in Mobile Robots

Last year, many robotic companies successfully delivered innovative automation solutions based on a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model. Market players like Locus Robotics, inVia Robotics, Bossa Nova, KnightScope, among others have forged the RaaS path into their various market segments. As applications for mobile robots advanced across all sectors, the year 2020 and beyond will witness upsurge demand of these robots. These autonomous robots are able to perform a different variety of tasks with a minimum of human input, while many are designed to operate safely around people. Amazon’s Kiva, for instance, is well-known robots, delivering a crucial role in the e-commerce giant’s order-fulfillment process, zooming around company warehouses to find products and bringing them to the necessary drop-off stations.

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The global robotics market, as noted by market reports, was registered at US$42,654 million in 2018 and it is anticipated to hit US$181,828 million by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 28.5 percent. The major driving force behind the substantial growth of the market is wide-scale deployment and advancements in robots as a machine and as an application. Robotics is making its way into various market verticals, proving its worth in several industries of today.
Even in the current crisis situation, one thing that we are sure about is robots are here to emerge out victorious as a recession-proof technology. During the coronavirus pandemic, robots have been extensively implemented across healthcare and other significant sectors as well.

Moreover, in recent years, we have heard a lot of buzz around what capabilities robots possess, what are their abilities, to what extent they can be beneficial for humankind, and so on. But take a moment and recollect, do you really know the varieties of robots that exist in the market today and in what ecosystem they can be their best?

Let us explore different types of robots.

On the basis of locomotion, robots are segmented as Stationary Robots; Wheeled Robots; Legged Robots; Swimming Robots – Robot Fish; Flying Robots; Rolling Robotic Balls (Mobile Spherical Robots); Swarm Robots; Modular Robots; Micro Robots; Nano Robots; Soft Elastic Robots; Snake Robots; Crawler Robots; and Hybrid Robots.

Moreover, as per their implementation across industries, there are categorized as:

Industrial Robots

An industrial robot is an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes. The field of industrial robotics may be more practically defined as the study, design, and use of robot systems for manufacturing (a top-level definition relying on the prior definition of the robot). Typical applications of industrial robots include welding, painting, ironing, assembly, pick and place, palletizing, product inspection, and testing, all accomplished with high endurance, speed, and precision.

Consumer Robots

Consumer robots have been part of popular culture for decades, fueling visions of having robots living alongside humans in our homes to assist with daily tasks, entertain, educate, and socialize. However, the promise of consumer robotics remains largely unfulfilled. Cleaning robots, such as robotic vacuums, dominate the market and we are years away from the widespread adoption of the robot types with which people have envisioned sharing their homes.

Medical Robots

Medical robots, according to Robotics.org, are a type of professional service robot used in and out of hospital settings to improve the overall level of patient care. They ease the workload of medical staff, allowing them to spend more time caring directly for patients while creating major operational efficiencies and cost reductions for healthcare facilities. These are the types of robots that are most prominent today in response to coronavirus pandemic.

Aerospace Robots

Robots play an important role in aerospace applications, in both the construction of aircraft engines as well as performing tasks such as drilling and painting airframes. Because of robots’ reliability, capability, and precision, their popularity in the aerospace industry is growing.

Aquatic Robots

Aquatic robots can sail, submerge or crawl underwater, Robotic fish can be used during human-induced ecological disasters that are affecting life in aquatic environments, such as oil spills, and man-made structures, such as dams, Driving force on aquatic robots can be tails, fins, thrusters, wings, thrusters, paddles, paddle wheels, air pumps, etc, based on your robot design.

Furthermore, owing to the wide array of opportunities for industrial robots, they are further different varieties across the manufacturing sector. Here are some of the most common types of industrial robots.

6-Axis Arm

When considering robot manipulators, 6-axis robot arms are probably the first thing that pops into mind. With excellent precision and flexibility, these robots are implemented in a wide variety of situations. They are named for the number of controlled axes or degrees of freedom available.

SCARA

Less than 50% of the people who work on them know it stands for either selective compliance assembly robot arm, or selective compliance articulated robot arm. They are, however, more limited in their application than 6-axis arms, moving primarily in a horizontal plane. The basic idea behind these robots is that they combine powered horizontal “shoulder” and “elbow” joints to allow it to fold and reach a variety of positions on an x/y plane.

Delta Robot

Delta robots consist of three sets of motor-driven parallelograms, allowing an end effector to stay level while moving at high speeds in a Cartesian (x, y, z) plane. While generally limited to the manipulation of light parts, their speed can present a huge advantage over other ‘bots on this list. They move fast enough that they can be difficult for humans to visually track.

Apart from the aforementioned classification, one of the newest forms of robots that are emerging are humanoids and cobots (collaborative robots).

Cobots

Collaborative robots, referred to as cobots or co-robots, are the newest type of robots designed to interact with people in a shared work environment. They account for only five percent of the record global industrial robot sales. Today, cobots have become a key part of production in many factories. Still, the majority of people scarcely know the difference between cobots and traditional industrial robots.

The classic industry robot is autonomous and once set to carry out a certain activity by a trained programmer, it is left to perform the task following the fixed program. Cobots, on the other hand, work with people and behave smartly. They are left in the open just like any staff to work in partnership with other workers. They assist in completing complex tasks that cannot fully be automated. They come in handy in a process that is highly repetitive or droning tasks.

Humanoids

Humanoid robots are professional service robots built to mimic human motion and interaction. Like all service robots, they provide value by automating tasks in a way that leads to cost-savings and productivity. Humanoid robots are a relatively new form of professional service robots. While long-dreamt about, they’re now starting to become commercially viable in a wide range of applications.

The humanoid robot market is poised for significant growth. It’s projected the market for humanoid robots will be valued at US$3.9 Billion in 2023, growing at a staggering 52.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2017 and 2023.

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Robotics field is growing at a faster pace. With this faster pace, it is also attracting a series of funding and financial investments. Let’s go through some of the important investments in robotics companies in April 2020.

Rise Robotics

Amount Funded: US$3 million
Lead Investors: The Engine

Rise Robotics, a Somerville, Mass.- based supplier of electric linear actuation solutions, raised US$3 million in funding. The round was driven by The Engine. Reed Sturtevant, a General Partner of The Engine, and angel investor Walter A. Winshall will join RISE Robotics’ Board of Directors.

The organization means to utilize the funding to work with a leading forklift manufacturer to quicken the electrification of its machinery, improving the performance of the producer’s current electric forklifts and empowering the electrification of its larger scale machinery, which is as of now diesel-powered.

Agile Robots

Amount Funded: 8 digit US Dollar
Transaction Name: Series A
Lead Investors: C Ventures

Agile Robots, a Munich, Germany-based robotics startup, raised an 8 digit US dollar Series A financing round. The round was driven by C Ventures, with support from existing financial investors GL adventures, Sequoia Capital China, and Linear Venture Capital. The organization expects to utilize the assets for future improvement of robotic products and its team, as well as quickening growth in the worldwide market.

Surrogate.tv

Amount Funded: US$1.6 million
Transaction Name: Seed Financing
Lead Investors: Rooks Nest Ventures

Surrogate.tv is a gaming organization offering playing with real-life robotics, toys, vehicles, and much more; over the web. These experiences are empowered through Surrogate’s real-life game engine and streaming suite titled SurroRTG. The company received a Seed funding of US$1.6 million. The funding round was led by Rooks Nest Ventures along with the participation of PROfounders Capital.

EarthSense

Amount Funded: US$750K
Transaction Name: Grant
Lead Investors: National Science Foundation

EarthSense raised grant funding of US$750K by the National Science Foundation. The absence of skilled labor in agriculture has led to an over-dependence on capital intensive machinery, synthetic chemicals, and simplified agricultural practices. This has led to the assortment of awful impacts from current agribusiness including on the environment, food quality, and farmer profitability. What’s more, the expanding unusualness of climate and regular extraordinary climate events are harming our capacity to provide the growing global population with food security.

To address these issues, EarthSense has built up an agricultural robotics and AI platform with three key applications (1) building up the next generation of progressively profitable and manageable yields, (2) helping producers get significant knowledge from their fields, and (3) overseeing issues like herbicide safe weeds.

Copperstone Technologies

Amount Funded: US$500K
Transaction Name: Pre-Seed
Lead Investors:

The company received its Pre-Seed funding of US$500K. Copperstone enables huge mining organizations to oversee liabilities and security costs related to their tailings lakes. They do this by building specialty field robots called HELIX that can get to their tailing lakes in a manner never seen before. HELIX carries sensors or sampling payloads to a tailings lake, keeping individuals out of damages, lessening costs and improving efficiencies for their customers.

Youibot

Amount Funded: Undisclosed
Transaction Name: Seed
Lead Investors: ZhenFund

Youibot received its latest Seed funding of an undisclosed amount. The round was led by ZhenFund along with the participation of HAX and C&I Capital. Youibot has explored and created autonomous mobile robot platforms independently, in view of the most recent generation of laser radar and real-time SLAM map creation and navigation technology. Furnished with indoor and outside robot navigation framework with core technology advantages, Youibot gives domestic first-class intelligent mobile robot systems and highly competitive industry solutions.

Teleo

Amount Funded: US$150K
Transaction Name: Seed funding
Lead Investors: Y Combinator

The company raised its Seed funding of $150K from Y Combinator. Teleo has some expertise in changing over existing fleets into remote-controlled robots. It empowers administrators to control machines from miles away, in a flash exchanging among machines and across places of work. Teleo expands the administrator’s productivity, upgrades crew safety, and features advanced Jobsite insights.

Cobalt Robotics

Amount Funded: US$13 million
Transaction Name: Series A
Lead Investors: Sequoia

Cobalt Robotics, a Palo Alto, Calif.- based maker of indoor security robots, got $13 million in Series A financing. Sequoia drove the round, with investment from the Founders Fund, Storm Ventures, Promus Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta, among others. Cobalt said it intends to utilize the robot funding to venture into new urban communities, expand its engineering and operations teams and carry the framework to new markets.

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The responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on societies and economies around the globe can’t be downplayed. Despite the fact that researchers have cautioned of quick-spreading ailments, most governments were underprepared and organizations of all sizes are asking workers to work from home or are confronting shutdowns (and at times, spiking demand).

The epic coronavirus has expanded enthusiasm for robots, drones, and artificial intelligence, even as some testing of autonomous vehicles delays on open streets. These advances can help manage enormous staffing deficiencies in healthcare, manufacturing, and supply chains; the requirement for “social distancing;” and analysis and treatment. We don’t yet have the foggiest idea about the long-term effects, yet there are more instances of how robotics is addressing the challenges presented by the pandemic.

Indeed, even in a turbulent market (and perhaps particularly in a fierce employment condition), financial investors appear to back robots. The most recent model: ForwardX Robotics, a Beijing-based robotics firm specializing in logistics, simply declared another round of Series B funding in the amount of $15 million, bringing the organization’s total funding to more than $40 million.

There are a lot of different models. SoftBank-supported BrainCorp, which makes robotic scrubbers for, among different applications, healthcare simply raised $36 million. Organizations large and small are growing how they use robots to increase social distancing and decrease the number of staff that need to truly come to work. Robots are likewise being utilized to perform roles workers can’t do at home.

Walmart, America’s greatest retailer, is utilizing robots to clean its floors. Robots in South Korea have been utilized to measure temperatures and deliver hand sanitiser. With health specialists notice some social distancing measures may be set up through 2021, robot laborers might be in more noteworthy demand.

Organizations that make cleaning and sanitising products have seen demand soar. UVD Robots, the Danish manufacture of ultraviolet-light-disinfection robots, delivered several of its machines to medical hospitals in China and Europe. Food supplies and eateries offering takeaway are utilizing these machines all the more as well.

Experts state as more organizations re-open we can hope to see further adoption of this innovation, you may see robots cleaning your schools or workplaces. “Consumers presently care increasingly about their safety and the wellbeing and soundness of laborers,” says Blake Morgan, author of The Customer of the Future. Moves towards automation can keep them all healthier and consumers will reward organizations that do this.

There are still restrictions. Ms Morgan calls attention to that automated checkouts at groceries ought to lessen human communications but since numerous frameworks don’t function admirably or break effectively customers avoid them and go to human cashiers instead.

To reduce steady exposure between covid-19 patients and caregivers and intensify screening, hospitals in India are going to robots of numerous sorts. Delhi-based AIIMS clinic has deployed a floor disinfectant and a humanoid robot in covid-19 wards. Fortis Hospital, Bengaluru has likewise deployed an intelligent robot at its passage to screen everybody, including clinical staff, entering the premises.

As indicated by a UK-based data analytics firm, GlobalData, adoption of robots to treat covid-19 patients is anticipated to grow in India because of the lack of PPE or personal protective equipment. Universal Robots has likewise observed demand for cobots or collaborative robots for manufacturing high-quality face masks in government-run assembly lines. Doctors are investigating how cobots can be utilized to remotely test patients for the virus to bring down dangers for healthcare employees.

The interactive humanoid robot deployed at AIIMS stands 92 cm tall, has cameras and sensors to distinguish obstructions and can monitor and collaborate with patients. The subsequent robot deployed at AIIMS can sterilize floor surfaces utilizing sodium hypochlorite solution. The two robots can move autonomously and work without human intervention.

The robot at Fortis uses face and speech recognition to pose questions and warm scanners to take temperature reading. When it has screened and cleared an individual, it gives a go to enter. If it distinguishes higher body temperature, it will alert the doctors and patients can counsel a doctor straightforwardly through the screen on the robot.

By and large, the market for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) is anticipated to produce over $10bn by 2023 as indicated by Interact Analysis and that forecast depends on information from before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This unquestionably didn’t happen overnight. The seeds of a robotic revolution have been growing for longer than 10 years, returning to research lab Willow Garage and the notable groundbreaking robotics research that started coming out of DARPA challenges in the mid-2000s. Collaborative robots, still a little part of the overall automation industry, have gotten insanely great at performing repeatable tasks around people. Mobile robots are zooming down logistic warehouse aisles and taking inventory of items at Walmart.

A 2017 report by worldwide experts McKinsey anticipated 33% of workers in the US would be supplanted via automation and robots by 2030. In any case, occasions like pandemics can possibly change all the courses of events and experts state it’s truly dependent upon people to choose how they need to incorporate this innovation on the planet.

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The innovations that follow the robotics advancements are worth watching. The pace at which robots are evolving is unprecedented. As some still fear the non-empathetic consequences of a machine, researchers are working their best to add human-touch to robots.

In this regard, scientists are moving robots along on that continuum by developing robotic skin. This will help machines gain the sense of touch. Researchers from Munich to Japan to Boston are currently looking into how to give robots tactile sensation and in some cases, feel pain.

According to a CNBC report, the eagerness to develop this technology is owing to the rise in automation. Currently, there are about 3 million industrial robots in the world. By 2030, Oxford Economics estimates that robots will displace 20 million human workers worldwide. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for industrial robots is estimated at 9.4% through 2023, according to Allied Market Research.

Expanding a robot’s ability to feel ushers in more practical applications. A sensing robot can discern the texture of a surface and the amount of force on contact. Some robots can also detect temperature changes.

Elisabeth Smela, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland, said, “It could be useful to back up and feel somebody touching.” According to her, without such awareness, a human worker might become biased against their robot co-worker.

Moreover, last year researchers introduced artificial skin developed by the Technical University of Munich. The artificial skin made up of hexagon-shaped silicone cells about 1 inch in diameter, can detect contact, acceleration, proximity, and temperature.

Skin is the human body’s largest organ, and it is full of nerve endings that provide us with instant reports of temperature, pressure, and pain.

John Yiannis Aloimonos, a professor with the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science, said such artificial skin “enables robots to perceive their surroundings in much greater detail and with more sensitivity. This not only helps them to move safely. It also makes them safer when operating near people and gives them the ability to anticipate and actively avoid accidents.”

Researchers say skin is important because a robot needs to discern the unspoken communication that goes on among humans. Mastering such nonverbal communications would be a quantum leap for robots. It can also be combined with other ‘robotic senses,’ such as sight or hearing.

John further added, “AI enables robots to perceive their surroundings in much greater detail and with more sensitivity. This not only helps them to move safely. It also makes them safer when operating near people and gives them the ability to anticipate and actively avoid accidents.”

Creating skin is just the beginning. So far, robots have been used mostly for their strength and focused intelligence, but over the next few years, there will be an increasing need for robots that instill a sense of humanity.

As such, softer robots could allow for a gentler introduction to the technology. Such robots may not have the human touch, but they do offer a touch of humanity.

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Clearly, during a health crisis, the most significant spotlight should be on worker health and safety. What’s more, generally, that feeling has come through completely clear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only have significant enterprises halted regular production, but a few producers have quickly moved activities and committing assets to make truly necessary medical equipment. It’s a valiant effort that without a doubt will save lives.

Obviously, sooner or later business should come back to some sense of normality. Without a doubt, the present emergency will eventually result in many manufacturing leaders investigating how they are utilizing technology going ahead for proficiency, yet sustainability. For most, there will be another ordinary.

If you stress that robots will render human workers out of date, the coronavirus pandemic offers adequate motivation to stress more: Surely organizations will accept the opportunity to replace demanding, flawed individuals with machines or artificial intelligence wherever possible. All things considered, we hope the emergency will likewise make a chance to negotiate better terms with our algorithmic overlords.

The pandemic has caused the world to rethink the sanctity of work. Simply take a look at the circumstance at America’s meat processing plants, where several of mostly immigrant workers are becoming sick. Workers have been ruthlessly isolated into two classes: those whose employers shield them from the infection and the individuals who lose their positions or their unemployment insurance if they will not work under risky conditions.

All things considered, manufacturers will restart operations with a completely new point of view. The same old thing hasn’t opened the most extreme value for business or workers, Ran Poliakine, founder and chairman of SixAI tells IndustryWeek. “Business, as usual, should become something better, progressively effective and productive. The present crisis has been the impetus for a change that has been on the doorstep of the industry for some time now a world where AI can give intelligent answers for some of our most fundamental needs: food, energy, housing, and manufacturing,” he says. “This will permit individuals to completely unleash their potential by bringing down their average cost of living and removing the need to do meaningless repetitive work.”

If specific organizations like the next generation of meat plants can’t revive securely and productively with people, they can and should do so with robots. A few occupations simply aren’t sufficient to secure. As of recently, among the greatest deterrents was the transition cost of going from gravely paid people to machines. However, if organizations disrupt their work process by really closing down production to spare lives (as they should), at that point they will have paid a significant part of the expense. They can train the robots utilizing information gathered by completely surveilling some model workers.

Starship, the Estonian robot delivery organization, has never been busier. Since the UK started social separating measures that constrained individuals’ ability to go out on the town to shop, the quantity of deliveries made by its armada of self-ruling robots has soared. We are venturing into new neighborhoods consistently. Preceding the Covid-19 emergency, we’d venture into another region month to month, yet now we are continually getting enquiries inquiring as to whether we can deliver in new places,” says Henry Harris-Burland, VP of marketing at Starship.

The organization has exactly 70 robots serving the Milton Keynes zone, delivering goods and takeaway food to individuals’ homes and is including more bots as quick as it can source them. Starship’s bots have been working in Milton Keynes as of now for as long as two years, however, the emergency has made more individuals search out the service.

A wide range of organizations will be hoping to diminish the number of human contacts associated with production and supply chains. Ocado, which creates warehouse technologies, calls out that merchandise taken care of by their system are regularly just moved by two sets of human hands during the entire procedure. That could turn into an undeniably significant selling point.

Self-driving vehicles, as well, may benefit from a transition to a low-contact economy. Swedish self-driving truck organization Einride recently expanded a deal to give transport to Lidl, the German supermarket chain. At first, the partnership is about moving to more eco-friendly electric vehicles for Lidl’s logistics, yet there is an arrangement to automate the driving, as well.

“Automating and electrifying transport [AET] decreases direct human contact at a few touchpoints in a supply chain, diminishing danger for everybody included,” says Robert Falck, founder and CEO at Einride. “We realize that AET is the route forward for a bunch of reasons and this emergency has highlighted one more.”

A robot food service, where clean dishes go in on one side and filled dishes come out the other without being moved by people, is incredible for that. Denmark’s Blue Ocean Robotics has recently dispatched many cleaning robots which purify wards and passages with UV light, to medical clinics in China.

Another organization intensely associated with new cleaning principles is Brain Corp, a US-based startup which gives software for cleaning robots utilized by organizations like Walmart. The organization says it has seen a 13% expansion in the use of its robots in the first quarter, even before the pandemic completely arrived in the US and Europe and has seen a further upsurge in client interest in recent weeks. It was one of the startups able to raise a US$36 million series D round last month, in spite of market strife.

So this emergency brings with it an opportunity for collective action. How it will function is not yet clear. Pitchforks aren’t viable against social-media algorithms, and Amazon probably won’t give it a second thought if some enormous part of the population can’t purchase its stuff, as long as the rest continues purchasing more. In any case, if the victors of the AI revolution need to stay away from the business disruption of an actual revolution, they should be set up to arrange another and altogether different deal.

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In the last decade, the robotics industry has created millions of additional jobs led by consumer electronics and the electric vehicle industry, and by 2020, robotics will be a US$100 billion worth industry, as big as the tourism industry. For example, the rehabilitation robot market has grown 10 times between 2010 and 2016, thanks to advancements in rehab/therapy robots, active prostheses, exoskeletons, and wearable robotics. According to a report, in short, the very next decade robots will become vital components in a number of applications, and robots paired with AI will be able to perform complex actions that are capable of learning from humans, driving the intelligent automation phenomenon.

Most certainly, in the near future, and as for biological systems, Robotics will be submitted to a selective pressure under which most of its branches and authors will change. All of that will happen because of several factors: the enormous costs of production and maintenance of such machines; because of the ecosystemic and energetic costs of the robots, which are similar if not higher than any other machine; likely due to the saturation of an already seemingly fragile market. Because of that, it is quite important to try to predict the future of intelligent machines in order to focus one’s efforts on the appropriate field.

The report predicts that there are few promising fields of robotics for the early future. They are Exoskeletons, Wearable Robots, Healthcare, and Collaborative Robots. There is, indeed, a flow of investments both from Medical and Fashion Houses that are trying to sustain the research in these fields. Investments are motivated by marketing reasons and, sometimes, by the real intent of generating a new trend in their consumers’ market.

However, in its short history, Robotics is already producing leftovers. Indeed, few branches of past pretty popular Robotics are getting out of trend. They are Humanoids, Geminoids, Cyborgs, etc. Their appeal and impact on the public (and on a big slice of researchers) seem to be fading away as if both the experimentation and the public imaginary had been saturated.

At the moment, the most innovative branch is Environmental and Alternately Powered Robotics that is attracting interests from different Institutes and Industries. Anyway, few are the existing application (i.e.: toys, navigation, etc.) and they do not represent a valuable set by which we could evaluate their effective potentialities. Nevertheless, they theoretically represent a quite important goal since a big obstacle in this machine-driven society is around the energy costs, and renewable energies in Robotics, as in all other applications seem to be the unique answer.

An important answer to the energy consumption question may also be found in the branch of Neurorobotics which exploits Neuromorphic computing. Many types of research are investigating the use of processes similar to (human) brain processes, which offer large scale computation at a much lower energy consumption than is currently known in any computational/robotic device.

In the last two decades, the field of robot implementation and adoption has literally exploded, both in terms of research and applications. It has invaded the people’s imaginary and almost all of the existing markets, up to the point that, on one side, we can spot at robotics news every single day and, on the other, Robotics is about to reach a market slice of US$100 billion.

As observed by the report, it appears that Industries’ Automation is the leader of such a world while a number of applications are consolidating themselves or about to emerge and to play a consistent role in Robotics research and production. They are Healthcare, Surgery, Housekeeping, Autonomous Vehicles, and, in part, Entertainment.

Moreover, when it comes to branches that seem to lose the affection of markets and researches, as for example Humanoids, and those who are gaining interests, as for example Alternately Powered Robotics.

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Given the never-ending announcements of job or salary layoffs, many businesses have restricted the further recruitment process for 2020. Such appalling situations have arisen due to the severe effect of coronavirus pandemic. However, amid all the employment upheaval, the technology sector is comparatively at a better place. Many CEOs and business leaders have even pledged for no layoffs while certain companies are still hiring tech-professionals spanning various touchpoints – Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), Cybersecurity and Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.

Analytics Insight has observed that despite all the unfavorable scenarios, these technology markets across various regions are open to new recruits that too with handsome pay. Countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and India are offering a great pay scale to technology professionals.

Average Salaries Across Different Regions

Analyzing the average salaries offered to these candidates in the aforementioned nations in 2020, we observed that in the US the average salary of an AI professional is predicted to be US$1,14,061 per annum. The average pay of a Robotics professional is US$74,587 per annum while that of a big data candidate is US$1,03,214 per annum. The IoT, Cybersecurity, and AR/VR professionals are more likely to get average pay of US$1,01,541, US$85,422, and US$97,549 per annum respectively.

Across the Canadian technology market, we observed that candidates with considerable Artificial Intelligence qualifications are more likely to receive a pay of US$89,934 per annum while those with Robotics knowledge are eligible to get an average salary of US$52,130. Comparing the Big Data and IoT salaries, professionals with great data-driven training are expected to get US$89,107, whereas, those having apt knowledge of ethics and working of connected devices are eligible to receive US$72,897 per annum. The cybersecurity candidates can earn US$45,804 per annum in the Canadian region and professionals with creative abilities to enhance the AR/VR industry are more likely to get US$49,174 per annum.

Analytics Insight observed that across the UK, professionals with better big data efficiencies are expected to earn the highest in 2020. Big Data industry in the region is readily offering a handsome amount of US$69,992 per annum. Where AI professionals are predicted to earn US$64,608 per annum, Robotics professionals can easily grab an opportunity worth US$46141 per annum. The IoT, Cybersecurity, and AR/VR candidates are expected to earn US$55,335, US$64,190, and US$49,699 per annum.

Now analyzing the market of India, we have concluded that the AI industry in the nation is offering around US$13,215 per annum, and Robotics and Big Data industry is readily accepting candidates with average salaries US$22,101 and US$12,576 per annum respectively. The cybersecurity professionals are expected to earn comparatively more than IoT and AR/VR professionals. Professionals with considerable cybersecurity aptitude are eligible to get US$11,428 while those with IoT and AR/VR qualifications can easily grab offers worth US$9,349 and US$8,352 per annum respectively.

Global Skill Gap

However, despite all the monetary luring and big scale investments, technology companies are not able to get the right talent to drive their organizational success in the contemporary market. One of the major reasons behind their failed efforts is the skill gap.

Many computer science students who are undeniably efficient in their core arena are barely eligible to touch the new technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and others aforementioned. This can be due to the lack of hands-on knowledge provided by the institutes or lack of awareness and loopholes in their education pattern.

The analysis presented by Analytics Insight on Global Skills Gap depicts that AI (66%), cybersecurity (64%), and IoT (62%) stand at the top three positions with the highest percentage of the global skill gap. Where the global skill gap for Robotics is around 60%, AR/VR industry is facing a 61% skill gap in 2020. Big data industry with the least percentage (58%) scores the last position in this enlisting.

And as the world navigates through the perils of fatal coronavirus pandemic and several nations are under lockdown, professionals and students can take great advantage to this quarantine situation. As an aftermath of the current pandemic, it will become even harder to grab the right job opportunity in the technology sector.

Therefore, utilizing the free time, they can prepare themselves for the post-pandemic landscape and get their desired job with a great pay scale while contributing to closing the prevailing skill gap.

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